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Wind farms can damage your health as well as your wealth
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Wind farms can damage your health as well as your wealth
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The wind farm industry claim that wind turbines pose no risk to health. In Ontario, Canada there have been reports of health problems near to a Prowind development. The local newspaper has reported on it extensively. There has also been active discussion between their readership. Click here to see what has been said. The response from Bart Geleynse of Prowind is especially interesting. We are still investigating health issues but for the moment we suggest you check out the following websites. It looks a bit like an echo of the tobacco industry who maintained for many years that there was no link between smoking and cancer. They were aided in this by governments who benefited from the tax generated by sales of cigarettes. We now have a situation where there are so many complaints about health problems suffered by people close to wind farms that the matter needs urgent and thorough investigation. It has been named "Wind turbine syndrome". Very similar symptoms are being reported worldwide. In the meantime a minimum offset of 2000 metres would go a long way to alleviate the risks. The health problems and noise issues seem to be closely related problems. Humans do not hear anything below about 20 hertz - a lower frequency than a base drum. But that does not mean that a high intensity of sound below this frequency does not cause a problem. It is called infra sound. Some studies have been done but so far no answer has been found to the problems that residents have encountered. It is interesting that many people who suffer the symptoms of "Wind turbine syndrome" also comment on ground vibration. It is known that vibration can be detected at 20km or more from turbines. None of this is included in the regulations governing noise limits from wind farms, which are based purely on that part of the sound spectrum that people can hear. Just because the human body cannot hear or feel something does not mean that it will not cause a problem. When research was first carried out into x-rays and their properties the researchers were not aware that they posed a risk to their health, they were concentrating on the beneficial properties that made X-rays into an essential tool for modern medicine. Infra sound has a range of characteristics which have enabled it to be used as a weapon against humans. It works by causing resonance within the human body, to which the body has no defense. Certain frequencies are known to match resonance frequencies in the heart and lungs, the eyeball and brain, needless to say the consequences can be fatal. It is all about how much energy is generated and transmitted. How much energy could be produced by three blades the size of a jumbo jet, with their tips traveling at well over 100 mph generate? Certainly enough to kill large numbers of bats through high pressure pulses sent out from the rotating blades. This is a known problem, they are killed because their lungs explode, they are not colliding with the blades. There are also reports of goats dying on a farm near to a wind farm in Taiwan. See our news page. Adverse health effects from wind turbines is a big subject and very worrying. We will provide further information when we have undertaken further research. If anybody has specialised knowledge in this area of environmental health please get in touch.
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